We extracted the following information from included studies: study design, sample size, inclusion and exclusion criteria, subject demographics, prevalence rate of aspiration pneumonia, type of outcome, type of statistical analysis and other significant predictive factors for each outcome.
Most patients had more than one potential pneumonia pathogen cultured, a finding that did not vary with pneumonia type.
We recorded the age, gender, pneumonia type, initial PaO2/FiO2 value, and CCI of every included patient.
We found no statistical intergroup differences in gender, pneumonia type, initial PaO2/FiO2 value, CCI, and the ratios of the SOFA scores on day 3 to those on day 1.
Statistically significant, but clinically small, rises/changes in admission source, steroid treatment, renal replacement therapy, severe respiratory problems, pneumonia type, and secondary admission reason are unlikely to explain these changes.
The primary diagnosis of the local hospital was severe pneumonia, type I respiratory failure, and chronic viral hepatitis B. After hospitalization, he was given integrated management including respiratory isolation, combined antibiotic therapy, lamivudine for hepatitis B virus, liver and gastric protective treatments, and fluid infusion.
The ICD codes for the individual pneumonia types were included in Needleman et al.'s algorithm.
While the actual incidence of MRSA in community-acquired pneumonia remains low, the incidence of MRSA in healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) accounts for 28% of healthcare-associated cases [ 3] and exceeds that in all pneumonia types including ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) [ 4, 5].
Mycoplasma pneumoniae type 2a strain 309 is a simplest known bacterium and is the primary cause of community acquired pneumonia in the children.
S. pneumoniae type 4 strain TIGR4 was employed [40].
For the vaccine trials that gave the greatest departures from normality (a hepatitis A vaccine [23] and a S. pneumoniae type 19F vaccine [24] trial), the distribution of the log transformed data from other 3 other trials examined with each of these vaccines were not significantly different to a normal distribution (data not shown).
